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Lockdown pastime for careless gardeners!

Gilly23Gilly23 Posts: 3
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Gather up all your hand tools with wooden handles. Wash and sand handles. Paint with primer then paint in lovely bright colours.  Varnish them if necessary. You’ll never lose them in your flower beds again or have to fish them out of the compost heap months later! 
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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Good idea, and if you paint them all pink your OH’s won’t want to use them. (Assuming your OH is male)  The very reason why I bought myself a lilac coloured wheelbarrow. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I like a bit of pink myself.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I've just received a Haws bright red small watering can, especially for seedlings and watering in my small leanto greenhouse - very cute.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • WilderbeastWilderbeast Posts: 1,415
    @lyn I'm afraid your pigeon holing all men with your pink comment 😀 it's my favourite colour and was the only thing I got to choose for our wedding day (no I didn't wear a pink suit just a tie and the bridesmaids wore pink)
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Oh well, another thread I’ll have to butt out of, can’t seem to say the right thing on here lately.
    time for another site I think. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • BiljeBilje Posts: 811
    Oh Lyn I don't know you but please don't leave, Wilderbeasts comment was said with a smile. Be gentle with yourself. 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I love your lilac wheelbarrow @Lyn but the colour wouldn't stop my OH using it.   His favourite flowers are bright pink cosmos.

    I might well use the handle painting trick on my favourite stainless steel hand fork tho.  Lovely wooden handle but too well camouflaged and I'm forever losing it.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • rachelQrtJHBjbrachelQrtJHBjb Posts: 819
    Wilderbeast said:
    @lyn I'm afraid your pigeon holing all men with your pink comment 😀 it's my favourite colour and was the only thing I got to choose for our wedding day (no I didn't wear a pink suit just a tie and the bridesmaids wore pink)
    We can see you're only pulling @Lyn 's leg.  Boys were always dressed in pink a long, long time ago. Only in more recent times is it seen as a "girls' colour. Historical use of pink for boys probably accounts for the pink uniform at Westminster School.
  • WilderbeastWilderbeast Posts: 1,415
    @lyn that was meant to be a daft comment on my part, I took no offence what so ever 
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I have coloured ribbons tied to the handles of my wooden-handled trowel and hand-fork, but it only helps to some extent (same with the fluorescent-pink-handled secateurs). I need to remember approximately where I left them so that I look in roughly the right place to see the bright colours. Good job my garden is only small - I would lose things forever in a big garden.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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